National Book Critics Circle Award

This prose style is uncommon in contemporary American literary fiction, particularly with the tendency of fiction writers and literary critics to favor a briefer, more to-the-point prose style. Her prose style stands in stark contrast to that of her former classmate Bret Easton Ellis, whose novel The Rules of Attraction incorporates a similar setting and has some overlap in character types…

In 1971, she began teaching literature and creative writing at the State University of New York at Purchase as an associate professor. Morrison continued her successful emergence as a writer with the publication of her second novel, Sula (1973), it is a novel about a girl who lives in a small town in Ohio whose community is destroyed by World War I. It also shows the story of friendship between two African American women that begins in childhood and is damaged by the inability of the surrounding…

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of a number of novels and stories such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson before Dying, Catherine Carmier, Bloodline, In My Father’s House, A Gathering of Old Men, The Sky Is Gray… is a well-known African American writer. Not only is he a writer, Ernest J. Gaines has also gained his fame in the educational field while he worked for several universities and colleges. Louisianan Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933. He is the oldest of the twelve siblings…

times-privileged such coveted prizes at the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the…

It was very hard to decide which four author’s I wanted to write about. I narrowed it down by the unique and special traits they each have. My four authors I picked to write about are Anthony Burgess, Louise Erdrich, Lorraine Hansberry, and Helen Keller. All of the authors come from different backgrounds and have very interesting poems, and unique trades in their life. Out of the four authors I picked, I only knew one of the four and decided to choose three other authors with totally different…

thriller, philosophical and literary reflections, pastiche and autobiography, which he baptised infrarealism”. Along his career, Bolaño received several prestigious awards, such as the Herralde and Rómulo Gallegos prizes, and in 2008, his novel 2666 was awarded as the best novel by Time magazine and by The National Book Critics Circle (Banks, 2009; Grossman, 2008). Authors such as Alejandro Zambra, Nona Fernández, and Lina Meruane, among others, have been recognized as outstanding younger…

People’s Poet by his fellow poets after he failed to win a Governor General’s Literary Award in 1969 for I’ve Tasted My Blood. He won the award six years later for his unofficial folk history of Prince Edward Island. The subject of two National Film Board documentaries, Acorn was also the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Prince Edward Island. In 1987, the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award was established in his memory. José ACQUELIN (1956) Anarchie de la lumière…

conservative Methodist up bringing was supplemented early with a diet of comic books and Weird Tales. When he was twelve, he began submitting stories for sale. He graduated from the University of Maine, Orono, with a B.S. in English and a minor in dramatics. He encountered two lasting influences: the naturalist writers and comp temporary American mythology. King despite his popularity largely derided in academic circles, type cast as a genre-fiction horrors novelist. (King…

The Mann Gulch fire on August 5 1949 in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area of the Helena National Forest in Montana. Thirteen young firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers unit died in a sudden blow up of a fire on the north ridge of Mann Gulch, trapped by the fire that had outflanked them. After his retirement as a professor at the University of Chicago, Montana writer Norman Maclean spent the last…

Robber Bride (1993) and Alias Grace (1996) features female characters trapped in the world of intelligence and complexity. The Handmaid’s Tale which came in the year 1985 is dominated by an unforgiving view of patriarchy and its legacies. Her next few books dealt less with speculative worlds and more with history and literary conventions. In most of her novels, she has dealt with feminist concerns and women’s relationships with other characters—both positive and negative. She has tried to create…